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Many traders like to manage the risks to their positions by attaching a stop loss order (S/L order) and a take profit order (T/P order) to the main order. If the security rises to the take-profit point, the T/P order…

A trailing stop limit order is designed to allow an investor to specify a limit on the maximum possible loss, without setting a limit on the maximum possible gain. For more details about trailing stop limit order, please refer to the introduction…

Moving average crossover strategy is one of the popular strategies that lots of traders have paid attention to. The details of the strategy is described at Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average_crossover In a short summary of moving average crossover strategy, the trend of…

Placing orders and checking how many shares in your account is a common step in algorithm trading programs. This sample code is to provide users an example about placing orders and then checking how many shares of each position in…

Tutorial: install IBridgePy and run an example Step 0: Install Anaconda Python for Windows users Download and install the latest version of Anaconda, 64-bit Python, either 2.7 or 3.6. It will take up to 30 minutes to download and install…

Dear IBridgePy users: IBridgePy has a new release 2.20171104 I would like to introduce some changes that a lot of users are interested in. show_real_time_price will not show any negative number anymore. Some users reported strange behaviors of order (…

Dear IBridgePy users, We know that migrating from Quantopian to IBridgePy is not an easy task so that we work very hard to support as many Quantopian functions as possible. From IBridgePy version 2.20171012, order_value ( ), order_target_percent ( ),…

Dear IBridgePy users, IBridgePy starts to support order_percent(security, amount, style=OrderType) now for version 1.20170920 For details, please check out http://www.ibridgepy.com/ibridgepy-documentation/ Other updates: The bug related to schedule_function is fixed. Thanks to jakemoilanen for reporting the bug The bug related to handle_calendar is…

Dear IBridgePy users, Due to increased number of users who are willing to migrating from Quantopian to IBridgePy, we are glad to offer FREE debug services to make the migration process easier. The scope of this free debug services are…

Dear IBridgePy users, We really appreciate thomas2004ch for his/her comments on missing release notes and version number. To address this issue, we have built a dedicated webpage to announce release notes about IBridgePy. http://www.ibridgepy.com/release-notes/ . The related release notes will not be…